06-04-2012, 01:09 AM
I hope I come off as less critical-sounding than I'm afraid I will, but.....
Wading in a lake like Mantua with a partially healed surgical incision is BONKERS! If it goes really red and itchy, swells, exudes pus, you can feel lumps around the area, or you get a fever, run do not walk, to an ER for treatment. I'm serious. I've seen people lose legs, go into respiratory failure, all kinds of stuff.
You're probably alright, though. Just keep an eye on the symptoms.
Whew! now that's done.....sorry...
Python? I agree with Joshmaru.. Gopher snake, also called bull snake, a large western member of the king snake family. Will bite, but not venomous. I saw the wildlife guy (accidentally) run over one with his truck last year, and that one was pushing 6 feet.
Swimmers itch is a tiny parasitic worm, about as big around as a human baby hair, and 1/2 mm long. It lives in the weeds and flotsam, and then tries to burrow into the thick skin of a duck or wading bird. It gets into you, finds you unsuitable, (body temp too low, different skin) and dies when your legs dry out. Your body freaks out about the foreign bodies, triggers immune response, and you itch, scratch, and swear all the way home....bad as chiggers...
Mantua is the reason I own waders.......
AND I'm gonna chew you out for not keeping the perch! Get two baskets and sling em one on each end of a pole like the Chinese guys in all the old movies. JK!
Glad to see you out there knocking 'em dead. I can't get my family outdoors at gunpoint. Keep on representin' the teenage fisherman! Yer a cool kid!
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Wading in a lake like Mantua with a partially healed surgical incision is BONKERS! If it goes really red and itchy, swells, exudes pus, you can feel lumps around the area, or you get a fever, run do not walk, to an ER for treatment. I'm serious. I've seen people lose legs, go into respiratory failure, all kinds of stuff.
You're probably alright, though. Just keep an eye on the symptoms.
Whew! now that's done.....sorry...
Python? I agree with Joshmaru.. Gopher snake, also called bull snake, a large western member of the king snake family. Will bite, but not venomous. I saw the wildlife guy (accidentally) run over one with his truck last year, and that one was pushing 6 feet.
Swimmers itch is a tiny parasitic worm, about as big around as a human baby hair, and 1/2 mm long. It lives in the weeds and flotsam, and then tries to burrow into the thick skin of a duck or wading bird. It gets into you, finds you unsuitable, (body temp too low, different skin) and dies when your legs dry out. Your body freaks out about the foreign bodies, triggers immune response, and you itch, scratch, and swear all the way home....bad as chiggers...
Mantua is the reason I own waders.......
AND I'm gonna chew you out for not keeping the perch! Get two baskets and sling em one on each end of a pole like the Chinese guys in all the old movies. JK!
Glad to see you out there knocking 'em dead. I can't get my family outdoors at gunpoint. Keep on representin' the teenage fisherman! Yer a cool kid!
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